Known by the names ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ash-Sham, also known as Da’esh – an acronym for the Arabic rendering of the group’s name, ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyah fil-Iraq wa ash-Sham), ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) and plain IS (Islamic State), the movement is both Islamic (religious believers of the Koran specifying that there is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet) and is a state, the size of which is comparable to five times the size of Lebanon. This website intends to seek the truth about ISIL from an objective and conservative point of view.